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One bass and multiple amps?

Which way?

  • One bass and multiple amps

    Votes: 30 33.7%

  • One amp and multiple basses

    Votes: 59 66.3%
  • Total voters
    89
#61
eban3 said:
i disagree with you...a good amp is designed to reproduce the sound of the instrument your using ,not modify it, there are amps with better fidelity than others but the tool is the instrument not the amp .....while i may like a particuar sound i can dial in on a particular amp ,i generally find that if i have to play thru an amp that i have never used i can ,as long as its a good quality amp dial in something reasonably close to what i get out of my own personal gear
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That may be the design goal of your amp. I can assure you you are very wrong about a lot of other amps.
 
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#62
eban3 said:
i disagree with you...a good amp is designed to reproduce the sound of the instrument your using ,not modify it, there are amps with better fidelity than others but the tool is the instrument not the amp .....while i may like a particuar sound i can dial in on a particular amp ,i generally find that if i have to play thru an amp that i have never used i can ,as long as its a good quality amp dial in something reasonably close to what i get out of my own personal gear
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Agreed with your last part, though some make it easier than others, and some require outboard gear for me to be happy with the sound. But it's my contention that reproducing the sound of your instrument simply doesn't exist. Anyone who has tried to match the sound of an acoustic instrument with amplification knows that it's impossible to meet that goal, and recordings vs hearing the actual instrument being played without amplification proves it. Once it's amplified, it's compromised. On the bright side, I find that quite freeing, so all I worry about is getting a sound that works for the music I'm playing and I throw all this stuff about sonic purity right out the window!
 
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#63
JimmyM said:
Agreed with your last part, though some make it easier than others, and some require outboard gear for me to be happy with the sound. But it's my contention that reproducing the sound of your instrument simply doesn't exist. Anyone who has tried to match the sound of an acoustic instrument with amplification knows that it's impossible to meet that goal, and recordings vs hearing the actual instrument being played without amplification proves it. Once it's amplified, it's compromised. On the bright side, I find that quite freeing, so all I worry about is getting a sound that works for the music I'm playing and I throw all this stuff about sonic purity right out the window!
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is that all ya got? What about the golf set of tube amps you own?
 
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#68
Downunderwonder said:
It struck me that in a thread about our multiple gas afflictions you would have had much more to say about the crazy idea that ''all amps are for is to make your instrument sound louder''.
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Hmmmm...I don't know that there's much more to say about it that I didn't already say. Obviously that's not the case with everyone, but if that's his goal and he gets a happening tone with it that he and his bandmates like, all I'd really care about if I saw him in action is the happening tone and I'm not really interested in the philosophy behind it :D
 
#69
Hmmm... from my guitar playing days (modern finger style acoustic) it didn’t matter how many guitars I owned, I played one. I also had one electric and one tube amp that I almost never played.

As a bass player I have a fretless (play 90% of the time) and a fretted (played when the band leader says I have to have frets or no gig). I have two heads - both Genzler with more or less the same pre-amp and sound - and two cabs - both Genzlers in different sizes - small & really small. I would be completely happy and could easily make things work with my fretless and either head and either cab = one bass, one head, one cab.
 
#70
Too many variables for me! LOL

Seriously, I have two basses, two preamps, one amp/head, a power amp and one speaker cab (soon to be two or three, hopefully).

Different tones for different apps. Er, I mean gigs... My P-bass sounds like garbage through my Trongraphic preamp, but my Yamaha J-equipped sounds awesome through it- great Bob Weston meets dUg tone. But the P-bass sounds awesome straight into the Quilter BB800- classic 70's Rock 'n' Roll bliss.

Need more power? Fire up the semi-retired SWR ST800 and drive another set of cabs, if needed.

Now add some effects... Wait! What? I have 15 different pedals to choose from now???? ***???? How the carp did that happen???? I just started building stuff and suddenly, I have two Ikea shelves/DIY pedalboards' worth of DIY and kit pedal...

Hard enough for me to "decide" on any of that, never mind casting a vote.

So, for now, I will go with Carrots and Turnips...
 

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